But Google is urging email providers to make an effort to encrypt emails. Da ta released by Google last week shows that 75 per cent of outbound messages from Gmail and 55 per cent of inbound emails to Gmail are now encrypted - a respective rise of 10 and 5 percent over the June figures.

Screenshot/Google Inc. Google has also invited its users to 'explore' or download the encryption data it has amassed. Users can look up any domain or string and see how much of their emails to gmail accounts is encrypted.